Prospect Info: Mads Sogaard, Goaltender, 37th Overall
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Just curious as to the status of Sogaard.
I know that in his limited playing time in Belleville this year, he has struggled big time.
What is the injury and is he coming back this season or is he out for the season?
He does still have another year on his contract next season and if Levi gets the back-up spot to Ullmark, does that put him back into position to be the #1 in Belleville or does Staois/Sens move on from Sogaard and go in a different direction for Belleville next season?
Nikitin is a back-up for Nanaimo in the BCHL & Reidler has only played 5 games in his first year at Univ of Nebraska, so I don't either of those guys are ready yet.
Malcolm Subban has been ok as back-up this season in Belleville at 10-6-2 and Michael Simpson is 4-3 in his limited time and is just 22 y/o.
Will be interesting to see how this shapes up for next season in terms of the goaltending depth for the org.
If they let Forsberg walk and they move on from Sogaard, that leaves it pretty thin on the depth chart.
I know that in his limited playing time in Belleville this year, he has struggled big time.
What is the injury and is he coming back this season or is he out for the season?
He does still have another year on his contract next season and if Levi gets the back-up spot to Ullmark, does that put him back into position to be the #1 in Belleville or does Staois/Sens move on from Sogaard and go in a different direction for Belleville next season?
Nikitin is a back-up for Nanaimo in the BCHL & Reidler has only played 5 games in his first year at Univ of Nebraska, so I don't either of those guys are ready yet.
Malcolm Subban has been ok as back-up this season in Belleville at 10-6-2 and Michael Simpson is 4-3 in his limited time and is just 22 y/o.
Will be interesting to see how this shapes up for next season in terms of the goaltending depth for the org.
If they let Forsberg walk and they move on from Sogaard, that leaves it pretty thin on the depth chart.
He's utterly failed everytime he's been given a shot to start in the NHL, so I don't think he has a future here.
I suspect he'll get dealt to a rich team that doesn't mind paying a young goalie with hypothetical NHL upside 1-way money.
I suspect he'll get dealt to a rich team that doesn't mind paying a young goalie with hypothetical NHL upside 1-way money.
Zero chance any team trades for Sogaard on a 1-way contract. They won't want to pay him $750K to play in the AHL. When he is put on waivers at the start of next season to be sent to the AHL, he will go unclaimed.
I haven't see any NHL upside, he has not played above-average in even 1 NHL game. He has been between average and terrible in every game he's played. Merilainen, on the other hand, has been great to good in the majority of his games.
10 games ago Sogaard was thought of as a consensus top 5 pick in our pool and arguably our best goalie prospect.
He doesn't have a future here but that doesn't mean another team won't take a chance on him, especially if he costs no assets to acquire.
Plenty of teams that have more money than us routinely pay players 1-way money to play in the AHL, so saying there's zero chance someone would take on Sogaard is laughable.
We'll see the truth next October. I'd bet the farm that Sogaard goes unclaimed in waivers.
Without the 1-way deal, he might have been claimed, but I'd still say that would be 20%. There is a lot of tape on Sogaard in the NHL, like 25 games, and he has not even had 1 good game, not to mention 0 great games. He has been average at best, and terrible at worst. His size made him look promising in the AHL. His clumsiness and lack of mobility have shown that he has no NHL upside.
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He's getting close to returning - he was on the ice for a full practice earlier this week. From what I understand he had some sort of knee injury.
I'm not sure how concerned the Sens will be about Sogaard's one-way money. They've been paying MacEwen's salary for two years now without bellyaching about it in the media, so there is some precedent. Nowadays you have to pay AHL veterans a lot of money - they were paying Highmore 400k, Hodgson 325k, and were prepared to pay Gaudette 475k. These are creeping pretty close to an NHL league minimum deal.
Since there's no other internal option, I think they'll probably keep him around and sign a vet to tandem up with him in Belleville.
I'm not sure how concerned the Sens will be about Sogaard's one-way money. They've been paying MacEwen's salary for two years now without bellyaching about it in the media, so there is some precedent. Nowadays you have to pay AHL veterans a lot of money - they were paying Highmore 400k, Hodgson 325k, and were prepared to pay Gaudette 475k. These are creeping pretty close to an NHL league minimum deal.
Since there's no other internal option, I think they'll probably keep him around and sign a vet to tandem up with him in Belleville.
